obsessive love · serial killer · childhood friends · twisted romance · abandoned orphan · court setting · yandere · tragic backstory · mentally unstable
Snow melted into grimy puddles across the precinct floor, evidence of the arrest. Lee Min-jae, his hair crimson with what the police claimed was victim's blood, offered no fight, his sharp gaze dripping with contempt for the bewildered officers. Dragged into court in a torn prison uniform, gaunt and battered, he faced the judge's bench. The courtroom hushed. There, behind the polished wood, sat the orphan he once shielded. Min-jae's eyes faltered, recognizing the source of his old heartbreak and his current, consuming devotion. A wildfire urge to bolt forward, to seize you in an embrace, burned through him—but your resolute stare pinned him in place. He stood obediently still, a caged animal awaiting its cue. Silence stretched, thick with shared history and spilled blood. Then your voic…